to think this is a bit odd?

My closest friend's DS will be nearly 6 months old at Christmas. I asked her beforehand what I could get her DD and DS but she didn't have anything specific that she needed for them, so I said could I get her DS some stacking cups? She thought it was a good idea so I went ahead and bought some a few weeks ago and told her I had done so.

Last week we went shopping together to buy some Christmas present for our own DC. She picked up some stacking cups and said "I know you've already bought him some but I'm going to get him these anyway!" I suspect she will end up giving them to him before Christmas, which renders my present a bit useless. It's too late to take the ones I bought back. I should have said something at the time really. WIBU to ask her what I should do with the cups? I'm going to have to find another present now which will be difficult as she bought half the shop

I get that they change very quickly, I have one! He can't even hold his own head up right now but yes I suppose he might want some to play with before then. Sadly hers are a different shape so he'll just have to have 2 separate small towers! That is a good point about them ending up lost by then anyway.

Thanks Fred, I'm not crying into my cornflakes or anything so I think I'll be ok.

My DD got stacking cups for her first birthday and she LOVES them. She pretends to drink out of them, puts her people in them, pretends they are phones, puts them in her 'handbag' and carts them about etc etc etc. The only thing she doesn't do with them is stack them lol!

At 4 months she would not have been interested in them at all. I think your friend is being a little lot odd.

odd to buy them so blatantly in front of you. i dont lose sleep over the weirdness of folk and needing immediate stacking cups, but i would be confused by the explicit demonstration that my gift was no longer needed. but, her baby is 4 months. i was mad as a box of frogs at that point, both times so i'd let it go.